• Source: Wichita (1955 film)

      • Wichita is a 1955 American CinemaScope Western film directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Joel McCrea as Wyatt Earp. The film won a Golden Globe Award for Best Outdoor Drama. The supporting cast features Vera Miles, Lloyd Bridges, Edgar Buchanan, Peter Graves, Jack Elam and Mae Clarke. The film's premiere was held in Wichita, Kansas, at The Wichita Theatre, 310 East Douglas, with the stars in attendance. Vera Miles had been Miss Kansas in 1948 and was third runner up in the Miss America pageant. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association awarded the film with "Best Picture - Outdoor Drama" in 1955.
      It was mostly filmed in California, including in Thousand Oaks, CA.


      Plot


      Former bison hunter and entrepreneur Wyatt Earp (Joel McCrea) arrives in the lawless cattle town of Wichita, Kansas. His skills as a gunfighter make him a perfect candidate for marshal but he refuses the job until he feels morally obligated to bring law and order to this wild town. His least popular move is to take away the guns of everyone in town, no matter how important. Only when town banker Sam McCoy (Walter Coy) is hit with a personal tragedy does Earp's no-guns edict begin to make sense.


      Cast


      Joel McCrea as Wyatt Earp
      Vera Miles as Laurie McCoy
      Lloyd Bridges as Gyp Clements
      Wallace Ford as Arthur Whiteside
      Edgar Buchanan as Doc Black
      Peter Graves as Morgan Earp
      Keith Larsen as Bat Masterson
      Carl Benton Reid as Mayor Andrew Hoke
      John Smith as Jim Earp
      Walter Coy as Sam McCoy
      Robert J. Wilke as Ben Thompson (as Robert Wilke)
      Jack Elam as Al
      Mae Clarke as Mrs. McCoy
      Walter Sande as Clint Wallace


      See also


      List of American films of 1955


      References




      External links


      Wichita at IMDb
      ‹The template AllMovie title is being considered for deletion.› Wichita at AllMovie
      Wichita at the TCM Movie Database
      Wichita at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
      Richard Brody. Movie of the Week: Wichita The New Yorker (Nov. 12, 2014).

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